This C library supports TIFF 6.0 based interchange format for georeferenced
raster imagery. The GeoTIFF standard has been developed for reading, and
writing geographic meta-information tags on top of TIFF raster.

This package contains stuff to be used to develop programs based
on the GeoTIFF library.

/usr/share/doc/libgeotiff-dev/README.Debian

libgeotiff for Debian
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** IMPORTANT ** IMPORTANT ** IMPORTANT ** IMPORTANT **
This version of the GeoTIFF library lacks the EPSG data files which are distributed
in a separate non-free package libgeotiff-epsg due to license limitations.
The library is anyway working and usable also without those files. If you need
to have reference information for standard projections, you
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/usr/share/doc/libgeotiff-dev/README.gz

About LIBGEOTIFF:
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This library is designed to permit the extraction and parsing of the
"GeoTIFF" Key directories, as well as definition and installation
of GeoTIFF keys in new files. For more information about GeoTIFF
specifications, projection codes and use, see the WWW web page at:
http://geotiff.osgeo.org/
or the download archive at:
http://download.osgeo.org/geotiff
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/usr/share/doc/libgeotiff-dev/NEWS.Debian.gz

libgeotiff-dfsg (1.3.0+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=low
This version of GeoTIFF links against TIFF 4.0.1 and the new 64bit-enabled
library flavor. It should be completely transparent to third parties
libraries, but of course avoid to try linking both a generic old TIFF
library and this GeoTIFF library, because that would break the program.
The Debian flavor of TIFF 3.9.6 is com
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